[Python-Dev] I am now lost - committed, pulled, merged, what is "collapse"?

[Raymond Hettinger]

On Mar 21, 2011, at 8:25 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> 
> Does Mercurial have a way of acting like a centralized vcs to the end user,
> the way Bazaar does?  IOW, if Skip or others were more comfortable with a
> centralized workflow (which is entirely valid imo), can they set up their
> local workspace to enable that mode of operation?

I don't think that is the main source of complexity.

The more difficult and fragile part of the workflows are:
* requiring commits to be cross-linked between branches
* and wanting changesets to be collapsed or rebased
  (two operations that destroy and rewrite history).


Raymond
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